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Gewalttätige Konflikte sind vor allem in notleidenden Regionen der Welt verbreitet, es ist aber wenig darüber bekannt, wie die Wirklichkeit der betroffenen Menschen aussieht und welche Entscheidungen sie zu fällen haben. In diesem Bericht untersuchen wir, wie Individuen während des...
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Despite the widespread prevalence of violent conflict in most destitute regions of the world, little is known about the … providing an insight into how individuals cope during post-conflict recovery in Northern Uganda. We particularly compare …
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aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern … Uganda for households that were displaced by the civil conflict, and geo-referenced data on armed conflict events, with which … we construct our developed index of recent conflict exposure. We compare households that moved out of camps with those …
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We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people's (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war … household data with micro-level conflict data to control for endogeneity (selection of households out from camps). We find a … strong effect of camp residence on activity choices. Particularly, individuals in IDP camps are more inclined to cultivate …
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It is well-established that armed political conflict has a detrimental effect on food security and household welfare …: conflict induces food insecurity by reducing own food production, access to food through the market, and various other … conflict-affected households in Northern Uganda. We employ propensity score matching to estimate the average treatment effect …
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We analyse the effect of mass violent conflict on individual expectations in Northern Uganda. We find that the … expectations of the future economic situation are negatively affected by recent conflict while the effect on broadly defined …
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In this paper we propose an integrated framework for the analysis of earnings inequality and mobility, which enables the analysis of the distributional dimension of inequality reduction from mobility, an assessment of the economic drivers of mobility and a sense of which drivers are equalising...
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We investigate transitions between unemployment, low-paid employment and higher-paid employment using household panel data for the period 2001 to 2011. Dynamic panel data methods are used to estimate the effects of labour force status on subsequent labour force status. A distinctive feature of...
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Several contributions to the literature have shown that the perception of the individual employment status depends on the surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual employment status regarding changes in mental...
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